Emoji are pictograms that are used to add nuance and meaning to electronic written text. They were invented in Japan in the 1990s and are now widely used across the world. Random examples: \ud83e\udd3e\u200d\u2642\ufe0f \ud83d\ude12 \ud83e\udd91 \ud83d\udd0a \ud83d\udc9a<\/p>\n
Egyptian hieroglyphs are characters, mostly based on real objects, that were used to write the Ancient Egyptian language. They were invented around the 32nd century BC and fell into disuse by Late Antiquity. Random examples:1<\/a><\/sup>If you only see squares, that means you need to install a font that supports those Unicode characters. Most browsers will display them automatically, but I’m not sure about the details.<\/span> \ud80c\ude9b \ud80c\udeca \ud80c\udcd5 \ud80c\udf17 \ud80c\udf81<\/p>\n There’s an obvious parallel to be drawn between the two, which multiple people have pointed out, usually with cries of “Thousands of years of language evolution and we’re back to using pictograms!” Even I tweeted about a few months ago:<\/p>\n Evidence that emoji are just reinventing the Egyptian hieroglyphic system:<\/p>\n (With apologies to @TheAnnaGat<\/a> and whoever can't see hieroglyphs on their machine)<\/p>\n 1) People<\/p>\n \ud83e\udd34 \ud80c\udc48 — \u00c9tienne (@etiennefd) March 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
\ud83d\ude47\u200d\u2642\ufe0f \ud80c\udc13
\ud83d\udecc \ud80c\udc40
\ud83e\udd37 \ud80c\udc20
\ud83d\udd7a \ud80c\udc24
\ud83d\udc77 \ud80c\udc28
\ud83c\udfc3 \ud80c\udc1f
\ud83e\udd30 \ud80c\udc51
\ud83e\udd31 \ud80c\udc54
\ud83e\uddce \ud80c\udc00
\ud83e\uddd1\u200d\ud83e\uddaf \ud80c\udc17
\ud83e\udd92\ud83e\uddcd\u200d\u2642\ufe0f\ud83e\udd92 \ud80c\udc2c (man standing on two giraffes)<\/p>\n